Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.
Related: China’s biggest cybersecurity company apparently just shipped an AI assistant with its own SSL private key sitting inside the installer.
Computer geeks working for the planet’s richest reptile are being coded out of their jobs.
I’m not happy they are out of a job, but anything that f**ks with the Zuck is okay with me.
I think anything from China should be thoroughly gone over with a fine-toothed sledgehammer.
Interesting how a technology which was supposed to slash costs by increasing efficiency has actually raised costs so much that it could sink the whole company.
Marketing got sold AI over IT objections.
Shiny new bable.
It’s too bad there is no measurable science which could be used to measure financial performance and plot it against past trends. /sarc
It wasn’t the machines who were supposed to learn to code.
L – R.O.I. means return of intelligence, when China calculates the value of its exports. “Unrestricted Warfare”.
Speaking of imports from China: https://www.ckom.com/2026/03/16/faulty-e-bike-battery-source-of-1-5-million-damage-at-saskatoon-business/
Re: Related
I think most people would be shocked and disturbed at the sheer half-assedness of the software that runs everything. The last five software companies I’ve worked for did not, in any meaningful sense, even test their software before releasing it. One of those was a medical software company. One was a financial software company.
There’s neither incentives nor consequences, and it’s been getting worse over the decades.